work director just tried to console us after the layoff

with the parable of the house on fire from the Lotus Sutra, chapter 3

i guess that makes us lowly employees... the children in the burning house? and he has bravely deceived us into running out, by telling us there are toys outside?

i don't even understand this as a Buddhist parable

but i _definitely_ think it was inappropriate for a director of engineering to say it to a group of colleagues mourning their laid-off friends.